Revolution Without Revolutionaries

Asef Bayat

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraord... Lees meer

Race and the Question of Palestine

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine--like other imperial and settler colonial projects--cannot be understood outsi... Lees meer

Street-Level Governing

Elise Massicard

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public... Lees meer

Hotels and Highways

Begüm Adalet

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "laboratories" of American society abroad: microco... Lees meer

Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence

Jacob Mundy

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community's failure to resp... Lees meer

Brothers Apart

Maha Nassar

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those wh... Lees meer

Revolutionary Womanhood

Laura Bier

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and politi... Lees meer

Making Islam Democratic

Asef Bayat

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Whether Islam is compatible with democracy is an increasingly asked question, but ultimately a misguided one. In this book, Asef Bayat proposes that d... Lees meer

Street-Level Governing

Elise Massicard

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public... Lees meer

The Reckoning of Pluralism

Kabir Tambar

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearl... Lees meer

Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine

Chiara de Cesari

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• In recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West Bank in response t... Lees meer

Between Dreams and Ghosts

Andrea Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal ... Lees meer

Refugees of the Revolution

Diana Allan

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still empha... Lees meer

The Universal Enemy

Darryl Li

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national... Lees meer

Palestinian Village Histories

Rochelle Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• This book chronicles the local histories written by modern Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed in the 1948 war. Lees meer

The Incarcerated Modern

Golnar Nikpour

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a de... Lees meer

Screen Shots

Rebecca L Stein

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bys... Lees meer

Dear Palestine

Shay Hazkani

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs ... Lees meer

The Optimist

Tamir Sorek

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist. For four decades, he was a dominant figure in political li... Lees meer

Official Stories

Laurie A Brand

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Until the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the resilience of authoritarian regimes seemed a fundamental feature of regional polit... Lees meer

The Autumn of Dictatorship

Samer Soliman

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation... Lees meer

The Incarcerated Modern

Golnar Nikpour

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a de... Lees meer

Soundtrack of the Revolution

Nahid Siamdoust

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Music was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. T... Lees meer

Media of the Masses

Andrew Simon

• Paperback | Engels | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
• Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology-the cassette tape-to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the... Lees meer